KET Listening Part 1: Using visuals Teachers Notes

Description
Students do a lead-in activity in which they listen to a description of a person and identify who it is. The teacher elicits what they have to do in Part 1 of the Listening paper. Students underline the main words in Part 1 questions. Finally, they complete a Part 1 Listening task as a team activity.

Time required: Materials required:

15- 20 minutes Handout (one copy per student) Recording of Sample Task (KET Listening Test 1 Part 1 Recording available at https://www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org/ts/exams/generalenglish/ket ) to familiarise students with the content and format of Paper 2, Part 1 to practice a Part 1 task

Aims:

Procedure 1. As a lead in, explain that you are going to ask three students to stand up and that you are going to describe one of them. Your description could be something like this. X has long dark curly hair. She doesnt wear glasses. Shes tall and slim. Ask the class which students you have described. You could follow this with descriptions of three different bags, three different books, etc. You could ask some students to describe one of the objects you have selected. The idea here is to provide a fun activity which is similar to KET Listening Part 1. 2. Give out a copy of the handout to each student. Elicit what students have to do in Part 1 by asking these questions: How many conversations will you hear? (5 + the example) How many times will you hear each conversation? (Twice) How many questions are there for each conversation? (One) How many pictures/visuals are there to choose between in each question? (Three) How do you write the answer? (Put a tick in box A, B or C for the correct visual on the question paper while you listen. When you listen for the second time, check your answer. At the end of the test transfer your answers to the answer sheet.) 3. Read out the question in the example. Play the example and check the answer. Ask: Does the woman think there were a lot of people at the meeting? (No, she says thats not many.) Is the man is happy about the number of people who came to the meeting? (Yes, he says thats more than last time.) 4. Before you play the recording for questions 1 5, ask students to look at the questions and underline the most important words in each question. This emphasises the importance or reading the questions carefully.
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5. Check which words students have underlined (see key). 6. Explain that students hear each conversation twice, with a short pause before the next conversation is heard. Tell them that you are now going to play the conversations one by one and check the answers one by one. Its a good idea to do the task in this way the first time so that you can answer any questions that come up. It will also give students confidence as they understand why the correct answer is correct. In order to make this activity more dynamic, prepare for the activity by making large copies of the three visuals for each question in Part 1. You will need them to be big enough for the class to see them on the board. Explain that you are going to: 7 divide the class into two teams put the three pictures for question 1 on the board play the recording twice let the team discuss the answer together, then ask one representative from each team to go and stand next to and point to the correct picture give each team one point for a correct answer repeat this for each question, changing the team representative each time count up the number of correct answers per team and announce the winner

As a round-up, ask students what type of information they listened for in each question: 1 2 3 4 5 a country a time the weather a distance (in kilometres) a description of a table

Point out that these are typical of the language that is tested in Part 1. Elicit what other typical things might be described for Part 1 tasks. Suggested answers: people, animals, objects, activities, dates, months, etc.

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Key Step 4/5: 1 Where is the woman going to go on holiday this year? 2 What time was the mans appointment? 3 What will the weather be like? 4 How far is the nearest supermarket? 5 Which table does Sally like?

Step 6 (Sample paper answers):

1. C 2. B 3. A 4. B 5. C

Suggested follow-up activities 1. Photocopy the tapescript for Test 1, Part 1 from the KET Handbook. Students could work in pairs and read out the dialogue. They could then highlight the part of the dialogue where they find the answers to the questions. 2. If you want the students to practise using the answer sheet, photocopy it from the KET Handbook and ask the students to fill in the lozenges in pencil for their answers to Part 1.

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KET Listening Part 1 Sample Task

Using visuals

Look at this Part 1 task and answer your teachers questions.

Where is the woman going to go on holiday this year?

Canada

Italy

Turkey
C

What time was the mans appointment?

11 12 10 9 8 7 6

1 2 3 4 5 10 9 8

11 12

1 2 3 4 10 9 8

11 12

1 2 3 4

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What will the weather be like?

How far is the nearest supermarket?

5km

3km

1km

Which table does Sally like?

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KET Listening Part 1 Tapescript

1 Where is the woman going to go on holiday this year? Man Woman Man Woman Are you going to go on holiday with your sister again this year? Yes, she comes home from Canada tomorrow, and then we're going to go away next week. Where are you going? I've booked a hotel in Turkey. My sister wanted to go to Italy again, so I hope she doesn't mind.

Pause Now listen again. Repeat Pause 2 What time was the mans appointment? Man Woman Man Woman Pause Now listen again. Repeat Pause 3 What will the weather be like? Man Woman Man Woman Pause Now listen again. Repeat Pause 4 How far is the nearest supermarket? Woman Man Woman Man Pause Now listen again. Repeat Pause 5 Which table does Sally like? Man Sally Man Sally Pause Now listen again. Repeat Pause This is the end of Part One. What are you looking for, Sally? A table for my bedroom. There are some small round ones there. I think Id prefer that small square one. How far is the nearest supermarket? Well, Johnson's is the best one but that's nearly five kilometres away. Isn't there one nearer? Well, there is one three kilometres away but it's not very good. I hope you have a nice holiday with lots of sun. Thanks, but I heard the weather forecast and it isn't very good. Is it going to rain? It's worse than that. It's going to snow! Hello I have an appointment to see the dentist at eleven. Oh dear, you're very late. That was over half an hour ago. What time is it now? It's eleven forty.

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